A traitor

On the second day, after leaving the prime minister's mansion, Su Qinglang rushed to the morning court.

Since the official uniform was at home, his clothes were soiled again, so he had to wear Qin Huan's clothes to go back.

Thinking of Qin Huan's words last night, Su Qinglang thought for a while after washing up, left his original clothes behind, and then left the mansion.

When he went out, Qin Huan hadn't gotten up yet, and was lazily lying on the bed, looking at Su Qinglang busily washing up, he seemed a little dissatisfied, and even said that he was busy with domestic affairs.

And it was thankless, I really wanted him to resign from his official position and be with him every day, and finally saw Su Qinglang's underwear, which relieved him a little.

Ever since Su Qinglang left the imperial city, he hadn't gone to court for more than two months. He didn't see each other for a day, and the situation was turbulent. He always felt that the current situation had changed again.

He talked about His Royal Highness Yiwang in the court hall, and was praised by the emperor for a few words.In the end, under the discussion of the courtiers, it was decided to bury the unlucky King Yi in Gushan, next to the mausoleum of his mother's queen.

As for the queen mother of His Royal Highness Yi Wang, she can be regarded as the daughter of an important official in the court in the past, but it is a pity that she is dull by nature. After marrying the second prince Li Hong, she has been depressed, as if she has been wronged by the world, and she has not been married for many years. Heir, thanks to the power of her mother's family, she kept the position of the princess.

Later, when His Royal Highness Yi Wang was born, the relationship between the two eased a little.

However, his cool temperament has not changed. Even if he treats his parents and children, he doesn't care. There are rumors that when King Yi was four or five years old, he accidentally hurt his hand. The princess didn't respond when he saw it. , and asked him to find the second prince.

Now arrange for their mother and son to be buried on top of a mountain. I don't know if the two dead souls can sit down and cultivate their relationship in the silent hour of midnight...

After the morning court, Su Qinglang followed Qin Jian and was about to walk out of the hall when he heard shouts coming from behind him. When he turned around, it was the Prime Minister of the Left, Pei Yan.

Pei Yan came to the front, and said with a pleasant smile: "Master Su, please wait a while, the prime minister's mansion has newly obtained a high-quality Longjing tea, I wonder if Mr. Su has the time to comment on it?"

This is strange, Pei Yan has always been at odds with them, and Su Qinglang is the one he hates the most, but now he comes to show his favor to him, or is it in front of Qin Jian?

Su Qinglang glanced at Qin Jian, and seeing him winking, he smiled and replied: "Master Zuo Xiang is polite, but Qinglang has never been good at tasting tea. If he goes, I'm afraid it will ruin Lord Zuo Xiang's wishes." .”

Pei Yan said again: "It's just a lie to say that it's tea tasting. In fact, I want to talk to Mr. Su about the matter of Yizhou."

When mentioning Yizhou, Su Qinglang finally restrained his expression. He looked at Qin Jian and saw that he nodded, so he cupped his hands and said to Pei Yan: "So, thank you, Prime Minister Zuo, for inviting me."

Back in the mansion, Su Qinglang changed into light clothes, thinking that he would not be indecent when he came, how could he go to Zuo Xiang's mansion without bringing some gifts?

So after searching for a long time in my own treasury, I finally found a set of high-quality purple sand tea sets. Although it was not worth much, it was exquisite.

Take the carriage to Zuo Xiangfu, at this time, the door is empty, there is no other carriage, obviously only Su Qinglang was invited.

In fact, Su Qinglang had been to this Zuo Xiangfu a few times before, but it was only when he was very young.

The wives of officials and noble families in the city often come and go, you come to my house for tea, and I go to your house to enjoy flowers and so on.

On the one hand, the relationship between women is connected, and on the other hand, it also increases contacts for their husbands, and young ladies and masters are often brought by their mothers.

I remember that one year, the marigolds of Zuo Xiang Pei Yan’s family bloomed. Su Qinglang’s second mother received the invitation and excitedly took him to see it. Xie Yu and his mother were also among them. There are many more, a group of women, plus a group of children, chattering and noisy, forming a nest of sparrows.

The adults are talking there, and their children can naturally play by themselves. At that time, Mr. Su was young, his eyebrows had not yet opened, he looked like a delicate little girl, and the young masters and masters who came to visit the prime minister's mansion all circled around him. The girls of the other faction suddenly lost face and turned red-eyed.

Several little girls got together, chatted for a long time, and finally pushed Pei Ying, the niece of Pei Yan's family, to come forward and give him a small "punishment".

Pei Ying is the only daughter of Pei Yan's second brother. Due to the early death of her parents when she was young, she was fostered in Pei Yan's home and has been raised as a lady of the prime minister's house.

But this lady from the Prime Minister's Mansion, even though her name sounds nice, looks like a soft daughter of warm, fragrant and nephrite jade.

But in fact, she looks big and thick, like a little black-faced Baogong. In Su Qinglang's words, she is the niece of Pei Yan's family, with a hulking back and a face like a vegetable bowl.

Miss Pei not only looks like a man, but her strength is not much worse than a man's. She was provoked and bewitched into thinking that Su Qinglang is a vixen who is harmful to others.

So taking advantage of people not paying attention, he slapped Su Qinglang into the water with a slap. If someone hadn't found out in time, Master Su's life would have been confessed.

His second mother has always protected his weaknesses, and has always regarded Su Qinglang as his darling, how can he see him being bullied like this?

At that time, it almost caused trouble to the government, and several wives persuaded them to give up, but since then, they never went to the gate of Pei's house again.

Under the leadership of his servants, Su Qinglang walked to the inner courtyard of the prime minister's mansion. The inner courtyard of Pei Yan's family was different from their Su family's. It was spacious and bright enough to accommodate hundreds of people.

Moreover, the Pei family is a family of officials and eunuchs, and they have lived in this place for several generations, so compared to Qin Xiangfu, the buildings here are much older.

He followed the servants and turned to a place, which was the pond where Pei Ying photographed him in the water, and there was only one person standing there.

Long hair like a waterfall, slim figure, wearing yellow clothes, holding a round fan in his hand, the breeze blowing, the tulle sleeves swaying lightly, like a fairy.

Su Qinglang's footsteps stopped. According to his memory, there was no other lady in Pei Yan's family except Pei Ying, who was five-year-old and three-year-old. This person in front of him...could be Pei Ying, right?

Realizing this, Su Qinglang was terrified, wondering whether this Pei Ying ate the fairy peaches from the Queen Mother, or stole the elixir from the Supreme Lord, how did she change her body and grow into this appearance?

When he was in a daze, Pei Ying turned around and gave him a salute: "Master Su..."

Holding a folding fan in his hand, Su Qinglang saluted her back: "Miss Pei..."

Pei Ying smiled indifferently, and asked: "My little girl hasn't introduced you yet, how does Mr. Su know it's me?"

Su Qinglang stood up straight: "The girl is outstanding in appearance, fresh and refined, may I ask, besides the Pei family, which daughter can have such a good temperament like a girl?"

Hearing what he said, Pei Ying covered her face with a fan, and smiled softly again: "It is said that Mrs. Su has a sweet mouth, and can spit out lotus flowers with one mouth. I saw it today, and it is really so."

Soft words, like pearls and jade on a plate, and like a yellow oriole singing, not only did Su Qinglang feel emotional, could it be that God just changed Pei Ying's soul?

He also heard her say: "My little girl still remembers that she pushed Mr. Su into the water in this place back then, which almost made a big mistake. I hope Mr. Su will forgive me."

Su Qinglang waved his hands again and again and said: "Where is it? Children are ignorant, so they have the right to play around. If the girl doesn't say it, I will almost forget it."

Pei Ying let out a groan, with a slightly raised ending, which was very meaningful: "Master Su thinks it's just a joke?"

Su Qinglang was startled, and then saw a sweet smile on Pei Ying's face: "But at that time, my little girl really wanted to put Master Su to death, and she never regretted it. Even now, seeing Master Su, seeing I still can't help but want to destroy this face..."

She walked towards Su Qinglang, reached out her hand to grab his jaw, looked him up and down, and said with a sigh: "It's so beautiful, no wonder the sons of the Qin family and the Xie family are vying to go crazy for you, but Mr. Su , a man, if the beauty becomes a woman, it is a crime, you know?"

The current situation should be regarded as molesting, if he yelled a hooligan, Pei Yan might lose face and be thrown into the street.

It was only now that Su Qinglang was sure that the girl from the Pei family had not only been reborn, but also lost her mind.

He raised his hands, looked at Pei Ying and said, "Pei...Miss Pei, men and women can't kiss each other. If you and I are like this now, I'm afraid it will damage the reputation of the girl."

There was a weird smile on Pei Ying's beautiful face, and the hand that was holding Su Qinglang's chin was slowly withdrawn.

However, when the nails touched his cheek, they obviously used a lot of force, like a sharp knife, directly slashing across.

Su Qinglang frowned slightly, and felt a burning pain on his face, but he was a man after all, and he didn't care about his appearance like a woman, so he didn't intend to pursue it.

The expression on his face did not change, and he said to her: "Miss Pei, you and I met by chance, just met a few times, after today, I don't think there will be any chance to see you again, but I have a word next, please listen to it in your heart, the so-called color is emptiness, and emptiness is color .

No matter how beautiful the face is, decades later, it will be just a wrinkled skin, but the things in the heart will be forever. The girl is as beautiful as a fairy now, but in my opinion, she is not as pure and kind as she was when she was a child. pleasing to the eye. "

When Pei Ying heard this, she lowered her head and saluted him: "As Master Su said, the little girl has been educated."

The two were talking, when they suddenly heard a call from a small road not far away: "Sister..."

Su Qinglang followed the sound and saw Lu Xun coming to him, saluted him and said, "Master Su, why are you still here?"

Su Qinglang smiled slightly: "When I met Miss Pei here, I chatted a little longer."

Lu Xun raised his head and saw several red marks on Su Qinglang's face, he couldn't help but was shocked: "Master Su, your face..."

After a pause, he glanced sideways at Pei Ying and said, "Uncle has been waiting for a long time, Mr. Su, please follow me."

Su Qinglang said thank you, and said goodbye to Pei Ying. Walking on the road, Lu Xun felt very uncomfortable and said to him hesitantly: "Sister, she...Master Su also knows that she grew up like that when she was a child. Forcing myself, I have suffered a lot, and I am inevitably a little paranoid in my heart, just now... please forgive me, Mr. Su."

Su Qinglang was speechless for a while, vaguely feeling that after returning from Yizhou, Lu Xun's words and deeds became much more thoughtful.

After a long time, he replied: "Miss Pei was just joking with me, why don't you forgive me, but you, who ran back from Yizhou without saying a word, do you know that Brother Mei and I are very worried?"

Lu Xun showed guilt, and said apologetically, "The situation was urgent at the time, and I was in a hurry to come back. I was a little rude for not being able to explain clearly to Mr. Su in person."

"there's one more thing……"

He paused, scratched his head, and felt a little embarrassed: "Shuyao and I, the girl brought back from Yizhou, are about to get engaged. At that time, I would like to invite Master Su and Master Mei to come here for a drink." Two glasses of water and wine."

Su Qinglang said oh, congratulated, and asked: "When will we get married? If we get engaged, won't we go back to our hometown?"

Lu Xun nodded, and said, "Anyway, it's a mess in my hometown. My father and mother basically don't see each other. I don't expect them to take care of my marriage. The Ministry of Justice is also very busy.

At that time, I will bring my parents over and make an engagement with my uncle, but Shuyao said that she will have to observe filial piety for her parents for a year before getting married. "

Su Qinglang nodded, and said quite approvingly: "You are filial and assertive, Mr. Lu has found a good girl."

"I think so too."

Lu Xun grinned, the joy in his heart was about to overflow, Su Qinglang looked at him and shook his head angrily.